...or the guy who literally fell off a cliff because he wasn't paying attention to where he was going while playing.

But those kinds of cases are the minority, and players love Pokémon Go. Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton made a Pokémon Go joke on the campaign trail...

Hillary Clinton speaks at the Democratic National Convention.Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

"I don't know who created Pokémon Go," the former Secretary of State said, apparently unaware that the game was a collaboration between Nintendo and the Pokémon Company. "But I'm trying to figure out how we get them to have 'Pokemon-Go-to the polls.'"

...and Justin Bieber was caught playing the game in the middle of New York City's Central Park.

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Speaking of Central Park, it turned into a mob scene in mid-July when Vaporeon, a relatively rare and desirable pocket monster, appeared in the middle of the night. Hundreds of players swarmed to catch it.

Vine star Logan Paul totally took advantage of that craze when he instigated a near-riot when he shouted that there was a rare Pokémon nearby in the middle of New York.

Authorities have been trying really hard to keep people safe while playing, with local police departments urging people not to trespass or otherwise break any rules in their hunt for Pokémon. It's gotten to the point where Japanese authorities have had to keep players away from the danger zone around the site of the Fukushima nuclear meltdown.

The hype reached its peak when Brooklyn-based Nick Johnson became the first to come forward as having all 142 Pokémon available in the United States — which won him a free, sponsored trip around the world to catch the three only available abroad.

Johnson and his girlfriend are greeted by a hotel employee in a Pikachu snuggie in Paris.Nick Johnson

Johnson's travels earned him at least one would-be rival: Peter-Joey Pham, a Wall Street finance worker who decided at the last second that he would fly to Sydney and try to beat Johnson to completing his collection. But in the end, Pham gave up when his bike collided with a car in Sydney and did some personal damage.

One guy, Los Angeles-based Benny Affonso, actually quit his job to play Pokémon Go full-time. His big idea is to act almost as a club promoter, bringing people in to local businesses that want more attention from Pokémon Go players.

Benny Affonso

A furor erupted recently, too, when it turned out that legendary Pokémon were accidentally released into the wild. A whole firestorm of controversy broke out, as the people who found Articuno — a very rare bird that's not even supposed to be in the game right now — were accused of faking it, right up until Niantic took responsibility. Oops.

Silicon Valley CEOs are into it: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is a Pokémon Go player, while Apple CEO Tim Cook has used it to highlight the power of apps. Cook, in particular, has reason to love it: The game's made an estimated $160 million in gross revenue, of which Apple would take 30%.

Not everybody loves the Pokémon Go phenomenon. Some government officials in Russia are convinced that the game is the work of foreign intelligence agencies like the CIA, sent to gather location data on the citizenry. That's why there's going to be another, similar game called "Know. Moscow. Photo" about "capturing" historical Russian figures.

But possibly the craziest thing to happen was when Nintendo's shares shot way, way up to new highs...right up until investors realized that Nintendo actually had very little to do with making the game.

Nintendo actually issued a memo to investors reminding them that it was Niantic and the Pokémon Company that made the game, not them. Oops, again.

So yeah, it's been a weird month, ruled by our new Pokémon overlords. But data indicates the game is maintaining its popularity, with new features promised to be coming sooner rather than later. So here's to more Pokémon Go.